Lately living healthy has become a trend, refined sugar's the enemy, calories don't matter as long as you get the right ones in. There's a difference between good and bad fattys and carbohydrates are good for you. Believe me i know it all. People are looking more often for healthy alternatives, and i've got one for you, that'll blow your mind away. This will make saying goodbye to the refined sugars a lot easier!
And the name of this healthy alternative for sugar is: Coconut sugar.
Coconut sugar, also known as coconut palm sugar or coco sap sugar, is a sugar made from the sap of the flower bud from the coconutpalm. It's a raw food, which means it isn't cooked, baked or heated in any other way. With its taste that reminds you a bid of caramel so sweet, delicious and rich it will not only satisfy your tastebuds but also add a hell of a lot of sweet deliciousness to your recipes. And the best thing: Coconut sugar is a superfood! Ever heard of the superfood? A superfood is a food that contains a lot of vitamins, minerals and other important minerals, Superfoods have a lot of health benefits, and are a good additive to a healthy livestyle.
Coconut sugar has a very high mineral content, and it's a rich source of potassium, magnesium and zinc. It also contains Vitamin B1, B2, B3 and B6. And it contains a lot of amino acids.
And if you're not convinced yet! Coconut sugar has a glycemic index of 35 which means that your body will use the Coconut sugar slowly, and it raises the bloodsugar preassure half as much as 'normal' sugar.
So for all of you who are searching for a healthy alternative for sugar, coconut sugar's the answer.
The only problem is that it's a bit expensive, but if you don't use it too often, and you don't use to much of it you can do over a month with just a jar of 500 grams.
To get you motivated to use coconut sugar i'll give you 2 delicious recipes in which you can use this amazing ingredient!
Chia pudding
With muesli and raisins
Ingredients:
For the pudding:
1 Banana
220 ml of soya, rice, coconut or almond milk
2,5 table spoons of Chia seeds
2 table spoons of coconut sugar
1 teaspoon of cinammon
Put the Banana, the soyamilk, the coconut sugar and the cinammon in a blender and blend it up. Now add in the chia seeds and leave it in the fridge for 3+ hours, you can also put it in the fridge in the evening so you it's ready when you wake up in the morning.
When you take this mixture out of the fridge you'll see it has a pudding consistency. Now you can add some muesli, oats, nuts, seeds, berries, fruits or whatever you like to add to the pudding. What i always like to do is put a layer of the pudding in a jar, then a layer of muesli ( without added sugars ), then another layer of pudding, followed by a layer of berries ( blueberries, gojiberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries ) or raisins, a last layer of pudding followed by a layer of some beautiful fruits of choice.
Oatmeal
If there's something i love it's oatmeal, delicious, sweet and filled with nutrients! It's defenitly one of my favourite foods. And ofcourse i'm not talking about plain oatmeal, i'm talking about oatmeal with additives that'll make the taste rich and sweet.
Ingredients:
60 grams of oats
300 ml of soya, rice, coconut or almond milk
dash of cinammon
2,5 table spoons of coconut sugar
1 pitted an sliced date
1 pitted and sliced fig
Maca powder
1 tablespoon of peanut butter
half a banana in slices
Put all of the ingredients minus the banana, the fig, the date and the peanut butter in a pan and cook it for about 10 minutes. When it's finished add the sliced banana, the fig, the date and the peanut butter to your oats and enjoy! Deliciousness guaranteed.
I hope this article was of any use, please tell me if you like articles like this, and if i should continue writing them.
xxx
Tamara
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